RE: Got the guitar Pete, but got a place to stay?Sun Dec 7 14:50:40 PST 1997

["Bragg, Blaine" <blaine@sdg.com>]

Remind me not to get to close to Eric....poor guy's got the worst luck. 
Having to be God at 20, Heroine addiction, his son's death.  On the plus
side, who else can say I stole a Beatle's wife and he's still my friend?


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>From: 	Brian.Cady@turner.com[SMTP:Brian.Cady@turner.com]
>Sent: 	Monday, May 27, 1996 10:45 AM
>To: 	thewho@mpath.com
>Subject: 	Got the guitar Pete, but got a place to stay?
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>      Clapton Saves His Guitars From Burning Home
>         LONDON, May 26 (Reuter) - British rock star Eric Clapton's
>     luxurious London residence was damaged by fire at the weekend -
>     but he managed to save his guitars.
>         "The first I knew about the fire was when I came back from
>     a day out, opened the front door, and smoke billowed out," the
>     guitarist was quoted by newspapers as saying.
>         "The first thing I did was grab my guitars. None of them
>     was damaged, thank God."
>         No one was injured in Saturday night's fire at the one
>     million pound ($1.5 million) mews house in London's Chelsea
>     district, which was started by an electrical fault, police said.
>         "I'm absolutely gutted. There's a lot of damage. The top
>     floor of the house is almost gone," Clapton said.
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